Mercurial showing files as modified incorrectly in Windows XP but not on Windows 7

Question

I'm using Tortoise 2.4.2 and I have a strange issue:

on Windows 7 when cloning repository X from server everything is well
on XP when cloning repository X from server I get some files modified although they are not modified

IMPORTANT NOTE: I tried this, this and this without success.

On XP when I try to do a diff I get no difference (binary equal).

Has someone experienced this issue and is there a solution for this?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Are these *some files* the same each time you try cloning the repository X afresh on Windows XP? — smooth reggae, Sep 27 '12 at 18:59
without knowing what they are, I can only ask: do you see a pattern in the kind of files that TortoiseHg thinks are modified? — smooth reggae, Sep 27 '12 at 20:01
@smoothreggae No ... They are ordinary source files. Their line ending is the same in each line... no difference (binary equal when launching kdiff3) — INS, Sep 27 '12 at 20:12
is upgrading TortoiseHg an option? I have been using 2.5 without any such problems — smooth reggae, Sep 28 '12 at 02:44
@smoothreggae The problem was found. See my answer below. Hope this helps — INS, Sep 28 '12 at 07:47

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 28 '12 at 07:46

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It seems that the mercurial.ini file contained some unwanted options. It had activated the eol extension but at [eol] section there was an extra option that created the unwanted behavior on Windows XP (this was not present on Windows 7).

Hope this saves some neurons in the future.

[eol]
;only-consistent = False
; the previous line should be commented and the repository re-cloned

answered Sep 28 '12 at 07:46

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aah :) I should have considered settings in `mercurial.ini`; [here](http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2010-October/025699.html)'s a discussion that might help – smooth reggae Sep 28 '12 at 13:05

Mercurial showing files as modified incorrectly in Windows XP but not on Windows 7

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